9

You'd pay a fortune


for a painting like this but


I walk into you.

8

The weight of the world


on his shoulders the death of


A leaf in Autumn

7

Half past eleven



and I'm half way through my life



lost but still breathing.

6

See them float upstairs



like they're made of helium



All the dreams I had.

5

The wooden gate farts


and the dog at the end barks


The dead sleep I drown

4

Wailing and screaming


Hell is a frying pan full


of freshly cut chips

3

God makes the world spin

anticlockwise the spider

dies with one small flush.

2

Bumper to bumper

The huffs and puffs of traffic

Clouds above my house.

One Haiku a Day.

Welcome to my new blog where I hope to write at least one Haiku a day for a whole year. Throughout my life I have had a love-hate relationship with poetry, loving to write and read poetry but hating the Narcissism that surrounds the world of poetry. I write poetry because I love to create worlds, not because I want to count Iambic Pentameters. I don't want to read poetry that I need a literacy degree to understand and neither do I want to write any of that baloney.

This idea came as I read something that a fellow blogger wrote this morning and I realised that I don't read enough poetry or write enough poetry. Therefore I decided to create a blog to encourage me to write more, especially the art of Haiku. For this blog I hope to write at least one Haiku a day for a whole year ( but sometimes perhaps more) and other forms of poetry. I may also use this blog to post some of my short stories.

It will be interesting to see if I actually manage to write a Haiku a day and whether my writing will improveas a consequence.

So here goes, my first Haiku.



A wedding ring suspended

In a dark night sky

I fell in Love with the Moon.